Seeking Truth: Educating Children within an Orthodox Ethos

Veteran's Day Weekend 2018: November 8-11

St. Kosmas Homeschool Community has joined forces with the Saint Emmelia Conferences of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of North America Department of Homeschooling, in order to bring a Pan-Orthodox Homeschool Conference to the West Coast which will be held at the St. Nicholas Ranch and Retreat Center in Dunlap, California.

West Coast Walk for Life

Pan-Orthodox Pilgrimage

Orthodox Christians Walk for Life! Join fellow Orthodox Christians of all jurisdictions and ages at the annual Walk for Life West Coast every January in San Francisco. Orthodox Christians from all over will be gathering for a pan-Orthodox weekend of prayer, fellowship, and learning surrounding the pro-life West Coast Walk for Life. The 2018 Walk for Life and the Pan-Orthodox events that took place in San Francisco were a great success and we are looking forward to gathering a large contingency of Orthodox homeschool families for participation in the 2019 Walk and Pan-Orthodox events that take place that weekend in San Francisco.

SCHEDULE

Saturday

8:30 am: Liturgy followed by breakfast at Holy Trinity Church, 999 Brotherhood Way

3:00 p.m. (Saturday, June 30) St. Kosmas Homeschool Community Recreational Outing: Walk on the shoreline near the Golden Gate Bridge

Any families attending the feastday services are welcome to join us for the shoreline walk, regardless of whether or not you homeschool. For meeting location and information about the walk on the shoreline: email the director of St.Kosmas Homeschool Community at stkosmashomeschoolcommunity@gmail.com

Annual Camping Trip in Kings Canyon National Park

2019: July

While Camping in Kings Canyon National Park, we visit Roaring River Falls, Zumwalt Meadow, and the Road's End. We camp near the river, wade in the creek, play in the forest, take hikes, do crafts, play board games, read stories, have some science and nature lessons, visit the park ranger at the ranger station, cut our own firewood, make campfires, eat together, roast marshmallows, sing traditional folk songs, and sleep in tents under the stars.

If you are interested in the Group camping Trip: email Christine at stkosmashomeschoolcommunity@gmail.com

Admission Cost: $35 (in advance) or $45 (at the door) for 1 adult for two days (excluding food and lodging)

Contact Us: stkosmashomeschoolcommunity@gmail.com

Review by Anne Marie Dole:

My husband teaches English in a public school and I homeschool our children. After attending the VHE convention in Modesto, both of us felt recharged for the upcoming school year. We enjoyed listening to Andrew Pudewa of IEW whose insights apply to all educators, K-12. Additionally Sonya Shafer of Simply Charlotte Mason is wonderful. We enjoyed perusing the exhibition hall with a couple book vendors selling little gems of used “living and twaddle-free” books. Overall it's a great resource for dads and moms.

Review by Christine Hall:

I attended the Modesto convention for the first time in 2018 and I highly recommend it. I had completely underestimated the value of what the speakers there would have to say. Though it had not been my intension, I ended up sitting in lectures all day, and got so much out of it. Though I have homeschooled already for 18 years, I left there feeling both inspired and equipped to be a better teacher this year, and with a resolve to give more of myself to my children in the remaining time that I have as a home educator for my youngest children. This would be a wonderful meeting point for Orthodox home educators from all over Central California.

August 2018 Schedule for West Coast & Arizona

With joy, we inform you that the Wonder-working and Myrrh-streaming Iveron Icon of the Mother of God from Hawaii will be in the Bay Area, Fresno, Dunlap and continuing onto Arizona during August 2018. Please tell and invite your friends and family to see, pray, visit and venerate our Holy Mother, as She comes to be with us all the way from Hawaii.

Saturday, August 11, 2018

St. Herman of Alaska Orthodox Church (ROCOR)161 N Murphy AvenueSunnyvale, CA 94086Tel: (408) 733-9475*Arrival of the Holy Icon, 2:00pmMoleben with Akathist, 2:15pm*The Holy Icon will remain at St. Herman’s until 4:30pm

Sunday, August 19, 2018

Following the Divine Liturgy, will take place the blessing of the new Iveron Shrine at St. George’s, dedicated to those struggling with cancer and other debilitating ailments.

At 1:30pm to 5:00pm, will take place the First Annual Fundraiser for the OHIIA Iveron Foundation at The Legacy Ballroom at St. George’s. All proceeds will go towards the building of a memorial chapel in Hawaii to house the Wonderworking Iveron Icon. To donate, please visit: www.iveron.org